Tracker / CVE-2020-27170
CVE-2020-27170
Medium 4.7
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, aka CID-f232326f6966. This affects pointer types that do not define a ptr_limit.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux |
| fedoraproject | fedora |
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 5.11.8 |
Analysis
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